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WARNING -- it's not on mg-ed-dv (yet) but a new virus is afoot in cyberspace

  • 1.  WARNING -- it's not on mg-ed-dv (yet) but a new virus is afoot in cyberspace

    Posted 03-28-1999 03:19
    I have picked up (off an American news site) warning about a very serious
    new virus. MSNBC's summary report is:
    If you receive an e-mail with the subject line �Important message from ...
    ,� be suspicious. If that message comes with a Word document attached
    called �list.doc,� you�ve likely been sent the Word/Melissa macro virus. And
    if you open the document, it will send 50 copies of itself to several e-mail
    addresses it gleans from your personal e-mail. That gives it the ability to
    propagate very quickly � much quicker than the happy99.exe worm, according
    to virus experts.
    More details are at:
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/253803.asp